Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; To the Reader; Part I / A Century of Valves; 1 The Discrete Revolution; 1.1 My Golden Age of Garbage; 1.2 Nostalgia and ...
When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...
Once upon a time, over 40 years ago, a horde of computer scientists descended on the West German city of Dortmund. They were competing to catch an elusive quarry — only four of its kind had ever been ...